Power outage affects 1,700

Saturday

Jul 28, 2007 at 12:01 AMJul 28, 2007 at 7:20 PM

An electrical power outage affected about 1,700 National Grid customers in the city’s North End Friday night.

Staff reports

An electrical power outage affected about 1,700 National Grid customers in the city’s North End Friday night.
Vanessa Charles, spokeswoman for the utility company, said “relay problems caused some equipment failure at a substation” about 6:30 p.m.
Power was restored before 8 p.m. to the affected customers, located mainly in the Highland Avenue and Wilson Road area.